This week was a great time. Since the boss is gone, I have a few more meetings than usual. Anyone who knows me, knows how much I just love meetings However, they were productive and provided some good thought provoking discussion, especially for some of our real time services initiatives.
Gannon is still sitting on pins and needles waiting for the e-mail from the Brazilian Soccer Club with all the information needed for the team…oops…just as I say this I spoke with the assistant and he said Gannon needs to show up to practice tomorrow.
Gavin, has been doing well after a few days of being a little typhoon. As I type this though, he just walked in with the stickers from his bedroom walls plastered all over his clothes. His mom is fit to be tied.
As for Kim, she is wore out and just needs a rest. I am thinking about getting her another massage therapy session. That or she just needs another girls night out.
So here I am, sitting on the couch, frozen peas between my legs and feeling good from percocets. Getting snipped was not fun at all. Gannon revoked my Man Club Card as soon as I stepped through the door. Very sad day.
Yea, people trample down my door to be added to this blog (yea, ok, I’m dreaming again) and Bill Zuckeris no exception, actually I am not even sure he even knows how to pronounce my name. If you haven’t heard his music, you better sit down because you may pass out you will laugh so hard.
I actually have chatted back and forth on Twitter a few times with Bill Zucker before I realized he was the guy with the world reknown “Tarp” song.
Anyway, Bill is a riot, enjoy the plugin I added with his music to the side bar of this blog.
Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Not sure why, just not in a good mood, which is unusual for me. I am typically a morning person and very lively and easy going in the morning. The bad mood just carried over into the rest of the day to include suffering through the terrible Harry Potter movie I just watched at the theater “The Half Blood Prince”. I loved the Harry Potter series, but this movie really stunk. Wanted to leave halfway through. Even 4 year old Gavin, who is typically captivated at the theater, was bored and started wanting to walk around and do something else.
The ugliness and foul mood just became worse once I got home and seen that some person filed a complaint with Paypal against me for an electronic book I was reselling on one of my many websites. This dork said he purchased it by mistake!
Ok, so you clicked on the link that said paypal purchase for $9.97, then you accidentally typed in your Paypal e-mail address and password, then you accidentally clicked confirm purchase. Yea right, stinking a@#hole. Wanted something for nothing. Paypal actually found in my favor, but I went ahead and refunded his darn money, which is against my better judgment. However, I would rather have a happy customer, than a pissed of customer that will create hate and discontent.
So, after this I went outside to trim the yard. Why is it that when you are halfway into trimming the weed eater always runs out of string? This always happens to me. Not sure why, I think it may be a curse from the weed eater people since I seem to cuss the company under my breath a great deal when I am working in the yard
So, I called it quites and will buy some string and finish tomorrow, or have my new Brazilian Soccer Club member finish the work. The later sounds like the best course of action to me. But, that said, I will leave it up to friends, family and readers of this blog to decide. So leave a comment, should Gannon finish the trim or should Dad.
This week was somewhat pleasant at work, if work can even be considered pleasant. I did have some late evenings but it was nothing real crazy. Getting home after dark is nothing new and may actually happen some more over the next month. The boss is out for a month on vacation, but he is staying in touch via e-mail so my workload hasn’t increased all that much, but enough to keep me going 100 mph around the office. The one thing that does increase is the meetings. Drives me bonkers! The office has been enjoyable, Marines are staying out of trouble for the most part, which is a wonderful change. The civilians we have working with us are some great people as well and I hope they can stick around for a while (most are under a short term contract). PT’d the Marines Friday morning. Learned two things:
1.)They need to get in better shape
2.)I am sore this weekend from proving #1
Gannon has been going hard and heavy at the Brazilian Soccer Club camp this week. They extended the camp into Saturday so the coach could observe the campers against his team, a tryout of sorts. Gannon was approached by the coach afterwards that he was selected for a month trial with the team!!!!! Gannon is learning so much more about the game from this coach and the coach doesn’t even speak English during practice. He uses an interpretor The coach was a professional player in Brazil so he knows what the heck he is talking about. The Brazilian club is sort of like what is referred to as a classic soccer team in the States. Well, Congrats Gannon! We are proud!
Gavin has been a pill this week for his mom. He is in that challenging stage where he defies to see how far he can go before there is punishment. It is driving his mom into a sanitarium I think. He also likes to wear his new blue rain boots everywhere. He used to do this with a pair of red rain boots as well before they fell apart. Not sure what the fetish is with rain boots, but I hope it doesn’t carry over into adulthood or we may run into some problems.
Still updating some websites with new software and it is painful. I have a few I am not going to even bother upgrading as they no longer get good traffic, so I will more than likely let the domains expire and let them die and then delete them from my hosting account. I should be posting a good update to http://brochin.net/blog this Sunday and wrapping up the series on Anti-Spyware.
Well, didn’t make it to the Soloist like we wanted to. We lazied around the house Saturday night. Nothing exciting, if I remember I think we watched a movie.
Sunday was a little more thrilling, we actually went to Kadena air base and shopped at the exchange. Yea, I know, sit down, the blood is rushing to my head as well from all the excitement. Speaking of Kadena air base, check out this freaky little video.
As you may recall from another post, or not, is that I have actually started loving work again. Great position, great boss and most of all I have some great people working with me and for me. We are just standing up a new section that is responsible for regional IT support.
We have so much on our plates, like infrastructure design, setting up dynamic routing on the network, software licensing management and much much more. Yea, I know, real exciting stuff right! Lots of late hours lately, but since I seem to be enjoying work, I really don’t care. This month is going to be real bad. The boss is taking leave, so lots of stuff to pick up the pace on.
However, they were productive and provided some good thought provoking discussion, especially for some of our real time services initiatives. 
